Center For The Book

02/18/2017

See you Thursday February 21 at Center for the Book!
http://libevents.abqlibrary.org/event/3031984?hs=a

12/15/2016

Best Wishes for a Beautiful Holiday!

02/11/2016

The Center for the Book is celebrating the First Folio Traveling Exhibition (http://abclibrary.org/shakespeare) by taking a look at a few of our Shakespeare treasures. The first folio is big and beautiful, but our 1932 Allied Newspapers Ltd. edition of the Bard's complete works is compact and cunning. The 39 volumes fit on a rack that's 8" wide x 9" tall x 3" deep. Too bad our arms aren't long enough to read the small print!

01/29/2016

Join us at Center for the Book for our open house Saturday, January 30th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.! http://abclibrary.org/centerforthebook

12/17/2015

Best wishes for a beautiful holiday season from your friends at Center for the Book!

12/06/2013

Brought to you by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Classic Books of the Read.gov website

08/21/2013

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/19/213498478/combining-the-nations-digitized-libraries-all-in-one-place

Libraries have been digitizing their collections for years, but the materials can be hard to find. Enter the Digital Public Library of America. Worried that Google has an outsized hand in digitizing books, the DPLA is combining, on one site, the digital collections of libraries nationwide — free.

07/26/2013

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/07/magna-cartas-to-be-unified-for-first-time.html

The British Library, Lincoln Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral are delighted to announce that their copies of Magna Carta, issued by King John in 1215, are to be unified for the first time in 2015. In an event to be staged at the British Library in London, scholars, curators and conservators...

07/10/2013

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/07/09/how-to-in-the-historical-collections-of-nlm/

By Michael Sappol The “how to” is an ancient genre. There are Egyptian how-to texts (in hieroglyphics) on how to prepare mummies; Sumerian how-tos (in cuneiform), on how to pray; Hellenistic how-to...

05/16/2013

Discovered by chance in 1940 by four teenagers, the Lascaux caves in southern France have inspired and awed anthropologists, pre-historians, scientists, and artists ever since. Beautifully subtle paintings and engravings of animals line the deep cave walls – sophisticated artwork created at the hand...